Tying device



Nov. 23, 1943. c. w. scoT'r 2,334,728

TYING DEVICE Filed Dec. 22, 1941 2 Sheets-Sheet'l Inventor A iiorney Patented Nov. 23, 1943 UNET'ED STAT s Pram v OFFICE 3Claims.

This invention relates to a novel tying device for use in connection with a string, rope, or

things of other flexible material used either for tying packages, crates, boxes, and the like, or

equally well useful in conjunction with guy rope for tents and the like, or proper for use with a clothes line for positively securing said line after it has been;drawn to the desired tautness.

The invention, together with its objects and advantages, willbe best understood from a study of the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein;

Figure 1 is aplan view illustrating the use of the device for tying a length of rope or-the like about a box. 1

Figure 2 is a sectional View taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1 with the box shown in end elevation.

Figure 3 is a view showing the box in side elevation and further illustrating the application of the invention.

Figure 4 is a perspective View of the tying device shown in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive.

Figure 5 is a plan View of the blank from which the tying device shown in Figure 4 is formed.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a modified form of tying device.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of a third form of tying device.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, and particularly to that form of tying device shown in Figures 1 to 5 inclusive, it will be seen that the same. is formed from a single blank of suitable material such as metal or the like out, shaped and dimensioned to provide amain body portion 5 which has projecting from opposite sides thereof and intermediate the ends of the body ears 5 and 1 respectively that are bent upwardly relative to the body on-substantially the lines 8 and 9 respectively.

At one end thereof the body 5 merges into a relatively fiat, straight extension ill that is provided with a hole or aperture H and a reentrance slot I2 for the hole'or'aperture H, the

slot l2 being on the diagonal and opening through the right-hand side edge of the extension l0.

At the end thereof opposite to the extension it the body 5 merges into a longitudinally curved extension 13 that is preferably curved upwardly as shown and is provided at its terminal with an aperture or hole l4 and a re-entrance slot l5 for the hole or aperture [4.

The lateral ear I is provided with a diagonal slot Iii and at one side of the slot adjacent the open end of the slot with a notch I! that is substantially at right angles'to the slot It as and for a purpose hereinaftermade manifest.

The lateral ear 6 is provided with a slot i8 that is on a diagonal but extends towards its open end in a direction substantially reverse to the direction in whichthe'slot It extends to its open end.

The lateral ear 6 near the inner end of the slot [8 is provided at one side of the'slot with an aperture or hole l9 and a re-entrance slot 2%] for said hole or aperture l9.

Also preferably the body 5at about the center thereof is provided with a hole 2l' to accommodate a suspension device whereby the device, when not in use, may be hung from a wall on a peg or nail, or to receive a fastening device such as a nail or the like for securing the tying device in the desired position on the article being tied as for example as shown in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, at the center of the top of the box therein indicated bythe reference letter B; the nail for so securing the tying device being indicated by the reference numeral 22.

When using the tying device as and for the purpose suggested in Figures lto 3 inclusive, the device is placed approximately in the center of the top of the'box and through the medium of the nail 22 secured somewhat loosely in that position.

The cord or other flexible element 23 to be used in tying the box first has a knotted end 24 thereof engaged in the hole H in tang I0, the knotted end of the cord being passed into the hole I I through the slot I2. The cord is then extended transversely of the box and trained down along one side of the box, transversely across the bottom of the box and then upwardly along the opposite side of the box, and finally transversely across the top of the box where it is engaged in the hole It in what may be termed thetoe tang I3, being passed into the hole l4 through the slot l5. From this point the cord is threaded through the slot 18 from the left to the right in Figure 1, across the plate S-and'through the slot Hi to extend longitudinally of the box, passing downwardly at one end of the box, then lengthwise across the bottom of the box and upwardly at the opposite end of the box when it is again threaded through the slot Hi, the free end of the element 23 then being pulled laterally into the hole l9. The engagement of the cord 23 in the hole l9 serves to lock the cord or string; it being noted that the sides of the notch [8 can be of such a size and shape as to permit of the making of a double hitch and the locking of each bitch in the final tying of the cord or string.

By way of explanation it may be further stated that in actual practice the angle of the slot 24 in the heel tang H] is opposite to the pull strain of the tying string or cord 23 as to insure against the disengagement of the string in the final tying thereof.

Also the notch H in the lateral ear 1 will serve to prevent the string 23 from accidentally slipping out of the notch IE during the tying operation.

Also the toe tang l3 provided as shown will produce the necessary leverage for the tightening of the tying string being curved as shown to produce or present a greater are to the tightening movement, which movement might be said to be circular and produces a twist to the tying string thereby taking up all surplus slack in the string insuring for the tautness thereof. It will also be noted that the hole M in the tang I3 is slightly offset to the slot l5 and thus serves as a string lock assuring free slipping of the tying string when drawn tight without actual disengagement of the string. In this connection it also may be stated that when the device is being used in the tying of larger shipping boxes, bundles, crates, and the like, or as a tent rope tier, tightener or stretcher, a roller may be journaled in the slot I5.

While the device as just described may be used as a tent rope stretcher, a clothes line tightener, or in similar capacities, the forms of the invention shown in Figures 6 and '7, respectively, will be found best suited for these latter purposes.

The forms of the invention shown in Figures 6 and '7 are substantially identical, the only difference being, as hereinafter more fully explained, that in the form of the invention shown in Figure 6 a roller 25 is used, whereas in the form of the invention shown in Figure 7 such roller is omitted. The use of the roller, and consequently the use of either of these devices for substantially the same or identical purpose, is optional.

Thus it will be seen that in each of the forms of the invention shown in Figures 6 and 7 respec tively, the tightener embodies a body 26 that is substantially oblong and is provided at one end thereof with a hole 21 and adjacent an opposite end thereof with a hole 23. At the hole-equipped end 28 thereof the body 26 is provided with a notch 29 and at one side of the notch 29 the extension 30 formed by said notch is bent upwardly.

Intermediate its ends the body 26 has extending laterally from one side thereof a curved tang 3! and this tank at its free extremity is provided with a substantially L-shaped slot 32. In the form of the invention shown in Figure 6 there may be suitably mounted in the slot 32 a roller 25 as shown.

In using either of the forms of the invention shown respectively in Figures 6 and '7 as a tightener for clothes lines, hay binds, load binds, guy tighteners, or tent ropes, the rope, or clothes line, as it may be, is threaded successively through the holes 2! and 28, one end of the rope being then trained upwardly through the slot 32 in contact with the roller 25, where such is used, after which the rope is passed through the slot 29, a turn of the rope then taken about the projection 30 and then finally, and for a second time engaged in the notch 29, this second passing of the rope into the notch 29 serving to lock the first passing of the rope within said notch 29.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1. A rope, chord, string or similar flexible element tying device comprising a body member provided at one end thereof with a heel tang having a rope-engaging aperture and a diagonal re-entrance slot for said aperture, and at an opposite end thereof with a longitudinally curved toe tang having in its extremity a receiving aperture and a re-entrance slot for said aperture; said plate intermediate said ends having integral lateral ears bent upwardly at an angle thereto, and each of said ears having an oblique slot therein, the angle in the slot of one of said ears being substantially opposite to the angle of the slot in the other of said ears.

2. A rope, chord, string or flexible material tying device comprising a body member provided at one end thereof with a heel tang having an engaging aperture and a diagonal re-entrance slot for said aperture, and at an opposite end thereof with a longitudinally curved toe tang having in its extremity a rope-receiving aperture and a re-entrance slot for said aperture; said plate intermediate said ends having integral lateral ears bent upwardly at an angle thereto, and each of said ears having an oblique slot therein, the angle in the slot of one of said ears being substantially opposite to the angle of the slot in the other of said ears, said one ear having therein a rope-retaining notch disposed at one side of said slot and substantially at right angles to the slot adjacent the open end of the slot.

3. A rope, chord, string or flexible material tying device comprising a body member provided at one end thereof with a heel tang having a rope or equivalent engaging aperture and a diagonal re-entrance slot for said aperture, and at an opposite end thereof with a longitudinally curved toe tang having in its extremity a rope-receiving aperture and a re-entrance slot for said aperture; said plate intermediate said ends having. integral lateral ears bent upwardly at an angle thereto, and each of said ears having an oblique slot therein, the angle in the slot of one of said ears being substantially opposite to the angle of the slot in the other of said ears, said one ear having therein a retaining notch disposed at one side of said slot and substantially at right angles to the slot adjacent the open end of the slot, and the other of said ears having at one side of the slot therein and adjacent the inner end of the slot a rope-accommodating hole and a re-entrance slot for said hole opening into the first-named slot of the referred to ear.

CHARLES W. SCOTT. 

